Olavo de Carvalho

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Carvalho rejects Karl Popper's open society for "not recognizing any transcendent values and by leaving everything at the mercy of economic conveniences – conveniences that are something alleged even to justify the very demolition of the free market and its replacement by the welfare state, based upon taxation and debt."[21]

In some works, Olavo de Carvalho attempts a criticism of mechanicism,[22] strongly criticizing Isaac Newton,[23]Galileo[24] and Rene Descartes.[25] He explains how Newton's First Law contradicts itself when lacking a traditional metaphysics.[26] According to him, "Galileo and Newtons's science belittled the observation of natural phenomena in favour of formulating mathematical models with no relation to empirical reality".[27]

Carvalho opposes astronomers and scientists in general who refuse to consider astrology as an object of scientific study, seeing in this refusal a partisan attitude. "There is a structural correspondence between the position of the stars in the sky at the time of a person's birth and his character. This can be verified".[28]

Another target of his criticism is Darwinism. Carvalho wrote: "All he [Charles Darwin] did was to venture a new explanation for that theory [evolutionism] — and his explanation was wrong. No one else, among the self-proclaimed Darwin's disciples, believes in 'natural selection'. The theory in vogue, the so-called neo-Darwinism, proclaims that, instead of a selection mysteriously oriented toward the improvement of the species, all that happened were random changes. [...] 'intelligent design' is not only the final touch of the Darwinist theory, but also its fundamental premise, discreetly spread throughout the whole argumentative edifice of The Origin of Species". He goes on saying that "Darwinism is genocidal by itself, from its very roots. It did not have to be deformed by disloyal disciples to become something it was not".[29]

"Sokal, Parodist of Himself." In The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook The Academy, The Editor of Lingua Franca (Ed.), University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

"Being and Power: The Main Problem of Political Philosophy." In United Nations Intellectual Leaders Striving For The Stable Development of Mankind, New York, United Nations/International Informatization Academy, 2001.